Bob Bogash

On Thursday, March 29, 2017, my Vans RV-12 airplane reached 500 hours of flight time.
About 1000 flights into about 100 airports
It was just under four years since her First Flight
The following photo essay recounts (just) some of her many adventures.


Departing Paine Field


500 Hours!

   
March 17, 2012 - Arrival of the kit

   
Working with Tony T. - my Bro and Mentor

   
August 2012 - Where do all these wires go???



Electronics work!

   
We're almost there - 90% done.... and 90% yet to go


Wings on - starting to look like a real airplane



A Big Day!  Inspection and Certificate of Airworthiness from the FAA.
January 23, 2013


A Bigger Day!  April 3, 2013 - First Flight!
A little airplane in a big, big sky


What a day!  The famous "Van's Grin"


Two months of flight testing


First Climb to 10,000 ft.


Testing, testing... and then, after about 20 hours and two months
 completion of the testing


Dot - my first passenger!


Exploring the great Pacific Northwest by air


Astoria, Oregon


Olympic Mountains


Ocean Shores, Washington


Waterville, E. Washington


Hoquiam, Washington


Friday Harbor - San Juan Island, Washington


Flying over Mt. Rainier climbing to 16, 214 ft altitude


On oxygen at 16,000 ft over Mt. Rainier



Frequent trips to Museum of Flight at Boeing Field


Hampshire Field at Grant's Pass, Oregon


Lunch at Nancy's Airport Cafe in Willows, California


Bedded down for the night with a Grumman F3F
Sonoma, California

Some of my many passengers

       
Dan Dornseif - Southwest Airlines 737 Captain              Jim Brown - Retired Boeing colleague

   
Peter Morton                                                Jack Wimpress  


My Eastern Bro Kevin Lacey from near Syracuse, New York


Visiting Ron Ochs on his farm near Madras, Eastern Oregon


Cascade Mountains




Starting to support my Museum work - Boeing 727 Prototype


Medford, Oregon



Mount Shasta, California


Lockheed Super G Constellation



Boeing B-29


Working on American Airlines Boeing 727-200


  My airplane is truly unique - hanging out with the Big Airplanes


See what I mean!


My (late) good friend Joe Blank from Vans Aircraft said.....
"she looks like she's nursing from Mom!"





Boeing B-17


10 years later - the Boeing B-47


Lockheed C-130 Hercules



Seattle Seahawks Stadium


Grain elevators - Brewster, Eastern Washington


Boeing Flight Line - KC-46 Tankers


Seattle Mariners baseball game at Safeco Field



Olympic Mountains from Tony T.'s airplane


Lake Washington Ship Canal


Air Force One and 727 Prototype


Hope, British Columbia


Arctic oil drilling platform


Point Roberts, Washington


From the Boeing 727 Prototype - N7001U - before Last Flight


Landing, Pt. Townsend, Washington

 
Landing, Boeing Field, Seattle


The Big Time!
Landing Runway 16R at Sea-Tac - Seattle Tacoma International Airport




Harbor Island, Seattle



Seattle


Fraser River, east of Vancouver, B.C.


   
Langley, Whidbey Island, Washington




Boeing 787 Dreamliner



Boeing Field - my RV-12 is my volunteer work taxi


Paine Field, Everett


With Big Sisters at Paine Field - Everett



Forest fire near Roseburg, Oregon

    Pacific near Tattoosh, Washington


along the Washington Coast


Dot's Birthday - lunch at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island
20 minutes vs 2 days and 4 ferry rides!


Cruise ship .... heading for Alaska


 
Douglas DC-2





Darrington, Washington


Paine Field, Everett


Concorde


Photographing my friend Mort in his Cub


....and my pal and mentor Tony T. in his RV-12


From the pilot's seat of N7001U - the Boeing 727 Prototype
Two of my loves



Dancing with clouds


Seeing the world as only God...... and pilots can



Outside her hangar - Port Townsend, Washington



Saddle Mountains - Eastern Washington


Departing Eastsound on Orcas Island


Mt. Rainier and Seattle poking through the morning fog


Taxiing in at the Museum - I've now been targeted by the Plane Spotters!

   
Wore out a set of tires - new tire installed on the right


Mt. Hood - east of Portland, Oregon


Mothball aircraft carriers - Bremerton Naval Shipyard



Space Needle and Lake Union


Wow!  Never get tired of seeing the Cascades.


Short final for Runway 27 at Pt. Townsend




Visiting one of my Ladies - the 727 Prototype before her Final Flight






My home base - Port Townsend, Washington


Getting used to looking down on other airplanes
Here - an Alaska Airlines 737 departing Sea-Tac


and..... another one!


An Air Force C-130 climbing out of McChord AFB


An EA-18G Growler above near Whidbey Island NAS


and another one below!


Following a Boeing 737 into Boeing Field








Friends Fred McCarthy and Peter Morton on Whidbey Island


And Dot - my constant Co-pilot - at Anacortes


Heading out for a new adventure....



Looking down on home - Hansville - after a long day working on the 727.
20 minutes of beauty vs 3 hours fighting traffic on the ferry.

Much have I traveled in the Realms of Gold




A lot of adventures - and these are just a few - a very few......
Airplanes are.... magical.... which is why I love them - so.
 

"I'm on the top of the World, looking down on Creation...."